As part of a series of special events accompanying the exhibition Holy Beauty: Northern Renaissance Prints Discovered in an Early English Bible, there will be a showing of the movie The Mill and the Cross.

The film focuses on a few episodes – out of the hundreds of scenes and characters – depicted by Flemish Renaissance master, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, in his Procession to Calvary (1564, Kunsthistorisches Museum). The narrative unfolds a series of vignettes representing everyday peasant life, intertwined with monologues from some of the most prominent characters of Bruegel’s work, including the painter himself, who explains to the viewer not only some of the symbols conveyed through his image, but also his own working methods while creating it. Starring: Rutger Hauer, Charlotte Rampling and Michael York.
This film is offered conjunction with the Holy Beauty: Northern Renaissance Prints Discovered in an Early English Bible exhibition taking place at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art between February 10 and April 29, 2018. For more information and additional events, please visit:willamette.edu/go/holy-beauty

Event Sponsor(s):Financial support for the exhibition, lectures, and film presentation have been provided by funds from the Verda Karen McCracken Young Art Exhibition Fund of the Department of Art History at Willamette University, and by general operating support grants from the City of Salem's Transient Occupancy Tax funds and the Oregon Arts Commission.